Universal Credit: Fraud

Summary

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether algorithms are used in her Department's integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) or Analysis and Intelligence Hub to model or predict Universal Credit claimant's risk of fraud and error;

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1. 16 May 2022

   Written question

   To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether algorithms are used in her Department's integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) or Analysis and Intelligence Hub to model or predict Universal Credit claimant's risk of fraud and error;

   Source: Commons

2. 24 May 2022

   Answer

   DWP’s Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service (IRIS) is developing the use of algorithms to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud in Universal Credit. Any risk of fraud or error identified is reviewed by a trained member of staff and this is on...

   Source: Written answer

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